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Othello Quotes

Othello as a well respected noble man:

“my demerits may speak unbonneted”

“requires your haste-post-haste appearance”

“you have been hotly called for”

“valiant Othello, we must straight employ you”

“I think this tale would win my daughter too”

“upon this hint I spake: she loved me for all the dangers I passed”

“the fortitude of the place known to you… throws a safer voice on you”

Othello as other/outsider:

“barbary horse”

“lascivious moor”

“extravagant and wheeling stranger”

“foul thief”

“run from her guardage, to the sooty bosom of such a thing as thou”

“abuser of the world, a practiser of the arts inhibited”

“abus’d, stolen from me and corrupted”

Iago:

“I know my price”

“I am not who I am”

“I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at”

“in following him I follow but myself”

“but men are men, the best sometimes forget”

“now I do love her too”

“make my fool my purse”

“conjunctive in our revenge

“I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth than it should do offence to Michael Cassio”

Iago as honest- “honest Iago”

“for making him eregiously an ass”

“till I am even’d wife for wife”

“to suckle fools and chronicle small beer”

“you rise to work and go to bed to play”

“when devils will the blackest sins put on, they do at first heavenly shows'“

“and out of her own goodness make the net”

“I play the villain, when this advice is free I give and honest”

“as of her tongue she oft bestows on me”

“a pleasure me a sport”

“double knavery”

“her eye must be fed and what delight does she have to look on the devil?”

Desdemona:

“your daughter has (if you have not given her leave) has made a gross revolt”

“with a greedy ear did devour up my discourse”

“our generals wife is now the general”

“the rites for which I love him are bereft”

“to fall in love with what she feared to look on?”

“if I do vow a friendship”

“his bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift”

“thy solicitor shall rather die than give thy cause away”

“and what delight shall she have to look upon the devil”

Iago: “I will turn her virtue into pitch”

“t’assist my simpleness”

Cassio:

“mere prattle without practice”- undermines Cassio’s position

“a fellow damn’d in a fair wife”

“spinster”

“arithmetician”

“the knave is handsome and young”

“a pestilent complete knave”

“reputation, reputation, reputation! O I have lost my reputation!”

“that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!”

SR

Othello Quotes

Othello as a well respected noble man:

“my demerits may speak unbonneted”

“requires your haste-post-haste appearance”

“you have been hotly called for”

“valiant Othello, we must straight employ you”

“I think this tale would win my daughter too”

“upon this hint I spake: she loved me for all the dangers I passed”

“the fortitude of the place known to you… throws a safer voice on you”

Othello as other/outsider:

“barbary horse”

“lascivious moor”

“extravagant and wheeling stranger”

“foul thief”

“run from her guardage, to the sooty bosom of such a thing as thou”

“abuser of the world, a practiser of the arts inhibited”

“abus’d, stolen from me and corrupted”

Iago:

“I know my price”

“I am not who I am”

“I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at”

“in following him I follow but myself”

“but men are men, the best sometimes forget”

“now I do love her too”

“make my fool my purse”

“conjunctive in our revenge

“I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth than it should do offence to Michael Cassio”

Iago as honest- “honest Iago”

“for making him eregiously an ass”

“till I am even’d wife for wife”

“to suckle fools and chronicle small beer”

“you rise to work and go to bed to play”

“when devils will the blackest sins put on, they do at first heavenly shows'“

“and out of her own goodness make the net”

“I play the villain, when this advice is free I give and honest”

“as of her tongue she oft bestows on me”

“a pleasure me a sport”

“double knavery”

“her eye must be fed and what delight does she have to look on the devil?”

Desdemona:

“your daughter has (if you have not given her leave) has made a gross revolt”

“with a greedy ear did devour up my discourse”

“our generals wife is now the general”

“the rites for which I love him are bereft”

“to fall in love with what she feared to look on?”

“if I do vow a friendship”

“his bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift”

“thy solicitor shall rather die than give thy cause away”

“and what delight shall she have to look upon the devil”

Iago: “I will turn her virtue into pitch”

“t’assist my simpleness”

Cassio:

“mere prattle without practice”- undermines Cassio’s position

“a fellow damn’d in a fair wife”

“spinster”

“arithmetician”

“the knave is handsome and young”

“a pestilent complete knave”

“reputation, reputation, reputation! O I have lost my reputation!”

“that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!”